Car-roof.



No. 679,80I. Patented Aug. 4(i, l90l.

J. EL ULSH.

CAB ROOF.

(Appl'ication iisd May 3, 1901.)

(lo Model.)

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NITED STATES PATENT FFICE.:

JOSEPH E. ULSH, OF AL'IOONA, PENNSYLVANIA.

cAR-RooF.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 679,801, dated August 6, 1901.

Application filed May 3, 1901- To all whom it may concern:

Beit known that I, JOSEPH E. ULSH, a citizen ofthe United States, residing at Altoona, in the county of Blair, State of Pennsylvania, have invented certain new andl useful Improvements in Car-Roofs; and I do hereby declare the following to be a full, clear, and exact description of the invention, such as will enable others skilled in the art to which it appertains to make and use the same.

This invention relates to car-roofs; and it has for one object to provide a roof including metal plates and in which said metal plates may be applied and removed from the inside of a car and without removing any of the roof-timbers or frame, a further object of the invention being to provide a construction and arrangement wherein leakage will be prevented, while water anddirt will be carried outwardly and offfrom the roof of the car.

In the drawings forming a portion of this specification, and in which like numerals of reference indicate similar parts in the several views, Figure 1 is a View showing the under side of a section of the roof. Fig. 2 is a longitudinal section of the section of the carroof shown in Fig. 1, one plate being partly drawn. Fig. 3 is a transverse section through the section of roof shown in Fig. 1.

Referring now to the drawings, there is shown a section of a car-roof including the transverse beams 5 and 6, which at their ends are secured to the upper beams 7 and 8 of the side frames of the car-body, the beams 5 and 6 being projected slightly beyond the beams 7 and 8, and to their ends are attached the planks or faces 9 and 10, which are separated from the beams 7 and 8 by the slight interspaces shown. On the beams 5 and 6 are secured the furrowing-strips 11 and the ridge-pole 12, to which are attached the boards 13, forming the top yof the car-roof. In the inner or mutually-adjacent faces of the beams 6 and 5 are formed longitudinal grooves 14 and 14, which in their transverse directions are taken or directed upwardly at an acute angle of the faces' of the beams 5 and 6, so that the upper Vand lower walls thereof are beveled and parallel. The lower walls of the grooves or slots are cut away at the central portions of the beams, and the grooves or slots at each side of these cen- Seral No. 58,620. (No model.)

trally cut-away portions are broadened slightly. Each groove or slot thus includes.

two sections, which lie at opposite sides of vthe central cut-away portion.

Two metal plates 16 and 17 are provided a a filling between the beams 5 and 6, and each of these plates has its side edges turned upwardly and iiaringly, so that the plates may be successively entered through the cut-away central portions of the beams and slid into the grooves of the latter. The plate 16, which is iirst slid into place, has its outer end without any bend or flanges, while the inner end thereof is bent upwardly and then downwardly to form a hollow bead 18. The second plate 17, which has its side edges also bent upwardly and flaringly to engage in the beams, has its rear end bent upwardly to form a fiange 19, which is adapted to engage in the hollow bead of the plate 16. This engagement of the iiange with the bead prevents leakage of water between the adjacent ends of the plates, while the iiaring side iianges of the plates prevent the water from passing over the side edges of the plates and into the car. The beams 5 or 6 are either curved, as shown, or are formed each of slanting sections, so that water will drain toward the outer edges or ends of the plates, which latter project so that the dripping will be through the interspaces between the beams 7 and 8 and the planks 9 and 10.

It will be understood that in practice modications of the specific Vconstruction shown may be made and that any suitable materials and proportions may be used for the various parts Without departing from the spirit of the invention. When the plates have been slid into place, the cut-away portions of the inner faces of the beams 5 and 6, through which the plates are passed to the grooves, are filled with the filling-blocks 20 and 21, which are held in place by bolts 22, passed transversely through the blocks and the beams, in the recesses of which they are seated. f

, What is claimed is 1. .A car-roof comprising transverse beams having longitudinal slots in their inner faces and openings communicating therewith through the lower faces of the beams, and plates passed through the openings in the lower faces of the beams and into the slots roo and having their mutually-adjacent ends engaged.

2. A car-roof comprising transverse beam having slots in their-,inner faces and having cut'- away portions leading from the slots through the bottom facesvof the beams, plates vhavi ng th eir side edges slidably engaged with the slots and filling-blocks disposed in the cut-away portion to hold the plates against displacement.

3. A car-roof comprising beams having 1ongitndinal slots in their inner faces and cutflange in engagement with the bead to prevent displacement of the plates in the slots.

4. A car-root` comprising transverse beams disposed upon the side frames of the car and projecting therebeyond, planks secured to the ends of the beams, said beams having longitudinal slots therein and out-away porl tions opening inwardly from the slots, plates disposed in the slots with their outer edges disposed to direct drainage beyond the frame of the car sides, the inner edges of the plates being interlocked. e

In testimony whereof I hereunto sign my name, in the presence of two subscribing witnesses, on the 11th day of April, 1901.

JOSEPH E. ULSH.

Witnesses:

J. B. RAYMOND, HARVEY-L. ULsH. 

